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IDF Northern Command chief: Military ready for potential all-out war against Hezbollah

Chief of the IDF Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, speaking at a ceremony marking 18 years since the Second Lebanon War, says the military is prepared to face the Hezbollah terror group once more.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Hundreds volunteer for new Gaza border counterterror unit

Days after its official inauguration, hundreds of Israel Defense Forces reservists have already volunteered to serve in a new elite counterterror unit created to protect Gaza border towns, the army said on Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Spain’s Ramallah embassy plan stalls as diplomats unwilling to relocate

The Spanish government’s plan to open an embassy in Ramallah has hit a snag as Spanish diplomats based in Israel are refusing to move to the city, according to Spanish media.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Nine IDF soldiers hurt in blast at base in southern Israel

Nine Israeli soldiers were injured on Tuesday night, two seriously, by an explosion at a base in the south of the country, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

In The News

Iran says IRGC general killed in alleged Israeli strike in Aleppo Monday

Iranian media said an IRGC general was killed in an early Monday Israeli strike on Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, which a war monitor said killed 16 members of pro-Iran groups.

Read more: The Times of Israel

IDF launches two counter-terror ops in central Gaza

Israeli forces on Tuesday started targeted operations in two areas of the central Gaza Strip based on intelligence indicating terrorist activity there—Bureij and eastern Deir al-Balah.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Netanyahu warns: We’re ready with ‘extremely powerful’ response to Hezbollah attacks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Wednesday that Israel was prepared with an “extremely powerful” response to attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon, which have escalated significantly in recent days.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Timing for Netanyahu address to Congress uncertain after floated date is ruled out

A date for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress remains uncertain after one date initially floated was ruled out because it fell on a Jewish holiday.

Read more: CNN 

European draft IAEA resolution presses Iran on key issues

France, Britain and Germany (the E3) submitted a draft resolution to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors on Monday pressing Iran on uranium traces at undeclared sites and the barring of inspectors, according to text seen by Reuters.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

In The News

Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker emerges as the theocracy’s top figure in the presidential vote

Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker emerged on Monday as the most-prominent candidate from within the country’s Shiite theocracy in the race for the June 28 presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month.

Read more: AP News

IDF soldier moderately injured, fires rage as Hezbollah ramps up attacks

Shrapnel fragments from Israeli interceptors moderately injured an IDF soldier on Tuesday morning, while also sparking a fire near the northern Israeli city of Safed.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Shin Bet foils Hamas suicide bombing plot directed from Turkey

Israeli authorities earlier this year thwarted a large-scale suicide bombing attack directed by Hamas’s terrorist headquarters in Turkey, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) revealed on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Jerusalem fire that damaged Israel Museum building being investigated as arson

Authorities are investigating the fire that broke out in Jerusalem’s Valley of the Cross as suspected arson, Hebrew media reported on Monday.

The fire started in the valley around 12:40 p.m. on Sunday. Investigators have identified at least three locations from which the fire is believed to have started, according to the Kan public broadcaster....

Sirens or school bells: Evacuated northern students don’t know where they’ll be next fall

In dozens of northern Israeli towns and villages that were evacuated under fire from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, officials hope daily rocket warning sirens will give way to school bells by the time the academic year starts on September 1.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Biden’s ‘Israeli’ proposal for a hostage deal leaves key questions unanswered

On Friday, as many Israelis were enjoying their post-Shabbat-dinner slumber, US President Joe Biden stepped up to the microphones in the White House State Dining Room to deliver a potentially game-changing address.

Read more: The Times of Israel

In The News

Iran’s acting FM in Lebanon to coordinate against Israel

Interim Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani arrived in Lebanon on Monday for his first official visit. His predecessor Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was killed in a helicopter crash last month, along with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Hezbollah burns 2,500 acres of land in northern Israel: ‘It will take years to recover’

Following Sunday's escalation during which Hezbollah fired barrages of rockets at Katzrin, causing major fires in the area, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority reported that approximately 2,500 acres of land were engulfed in flames in the attack. According to estimates, the recovery of some of the areas completely burned in the large fire -...

Netanyahu accepts invitation to address joint session of Congress

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday accepted an invitation to address a joint session of Congress.

He said that he was “excited for the privilege to present in front of the representatives of the American people and the entire world the truth about our just war against those who wish to kill us.”

Read more: The Times of Israel

In The News

France bans Israeli companies from prestigious defense trade show

France is canceling the participation of Israeli companies in the Eurosatory defense exhibition, the organizer said Friday.

Read more: i24 News

House committee asks SJP for its funding documents

National Students for Justice in Palestine has until June 12 to provide the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability with documentation of its communications related to Oct. 7 and its funding sources, according to a letter sent by the committee chair on Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate